DBMS > Coveo vs. Firebird vs. ObjectBox vs. RDF4J vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison Coveo vs. Firebird vs. ObjectBox vs. RDF4J vs. Trafodion

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

AI-powered hosted search, recommendation and personalization platform providing tools for both low-code and full-code development

Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBase

Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectors

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

RDF store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.14
Rank	#116	Overall
	#11	Search engines

Score	19.46
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#179	Overall
	#6	Object oriented DBMS
	#9	Vector DBMS

Score	0.72
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

www.coveo.com

www.firebirdsql.org

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

rdf4j.org

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

docs.coveo.com

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

docs.objectbox.io

rdf4j.org/documentation

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Coveo

Firebird Foundation

ObjectBox Limited

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2012

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2017

2004

2014

Current release

5.0.1, August 2024

4.0 (May 2024)

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

C++, Java

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

hybrid - fields need to be configured prior to indexing, but relationships can be exploited at query time without pre-configuration

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, plus "flex" map-like types

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

Proprietary native API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift

Java
PHP
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

yes

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

Data sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offline

none

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Features a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writers

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

granular access controls, API key management, content filters

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

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18 June 2024

The on-device Vector Database for Android and Java
29 May 2024

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